2024-03-07 13:45:35
The arrest warrant for Song Bong-seop, former deputy secretary-general of the National Election Commission, who was suspected of preferential treatment for hiring children, was dismissed on the 7th. An arrest warrant for former Chungbuk National Election Commission management division chief Han Mo, who was accused of receiving favors from former Deputy Secretary-General Song, was also dismissed.
(Seoul = News 1) Reporter Shin Woong-soo = Song Bong-seop, former deputy secretary-general of the National Election Commission, who is suspected of preferential hiring of children, is attending a warrant trial held at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 7th./News 1
Kim Mi-kyung, chief judge in charge of warrants at the Seoul Central District Court, announced on this day that she had dismissed all arrest warrants for former Deputy Secretary-General Song and former Management Manager Han on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of official duties. Regarding the reason for dismissal of former Deputy Secretary-General Song, Chief Judge Kim said, “The case is serious, but most of the relevant evidence has been secured, and it is difficult to acknowledge concerns regarding destruction of evidence.” Regarding former management manager Han, he said, “The suspect generally acknowledges the facts, and it is difficult to say that there is concern regarding destroying evidence.”
According to the prosecution, former Deputy Secretary-General Song is accused of asking a former management manager to hire his daughter, who worked at Boryeong City Hall, as an experienced civil servant at the Chungbuk National Election Commission when a recruitment notice for the Chungbuk National Election Commission was published in January 2018. A former management manager who received a request is accused of designating former Deputy Secretary General Song’s daughter as a successful candidate before her recruitment process was carried out and then making her recruitment process proceed as a formality. In fact, it was found that former Deputy Secretary General Song’s daughter was hired as an experienced civil servant at the Chungbuk Election Commission.
In order to recruit Lee, the daughter of his high school classmate, as a civil servant at the North Chungcheong National Election Commission, former manager Han is also accused of deciding that the area targeted for hiring experienced civil servants would be Ms. Lee’s residential area, and having the recruitment process proceed as a formality following selecting her as a successful candidate in advance. Receive.
Previously, the children of high-ranking officials of the National Election Commission, including former Deputy Secretary-General Song, served as local government officials from 2018 to 2022, and then were hired as experienced civil servants of the National Election Commission and were promoted in a short period of time, raising suspicions regarding the so-called ‘dad chance’. Immediately following that, former Deputy Secretary-General Song resigned.
In May of last year, the National Election Commission announced the results of an audit that “circumstances were discovered that make it difficult to rule out the possibility of unfair influence” in the hiring process for the children of four executives, including former Deputy Secretary-General Song. In September of that year, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission reported to the prosecution the National Election Commission staff and 28 external reviewers who were in charge of hiring 58 people suspected of being fraudulently accepted, on charges of abuse of power and falsification of official documents, and requested 312 cases to be investigated.
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